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Manchester University Press @manchesterup.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

Join author Sophie Oliver as she discusses her brilliant new book with the writer and journalist, Sian Norris, at @gloucesterroadbks.bsky.social in #Bristol. A fascinating examaination of the modernist movement through women's clothing. Tickets: www.headfirstbristol.co.uk/whats-on/glo... #booksky

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Sophie Oliver at Gloucester Road Books

Join academic and writer, Sophie Oliver as she introduces and discusses her brilliant new book, What the dresses know. Sophie will be in conversation with the writer and journalist, Sian Norris. What…

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Manchester University Press @manchesterup.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

On Radio 4's Free Thinking, guests including author and critic Sophie Oliver explore how ideas developed by feminist historians have transformed our understanding of the past. www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m... Sophie's book, 'What the dresses know', is out next month. #booksky

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BBC Radio 4 - Free Thinking, Reading against the grain

As Woman's Hour marks 80 years, Matthew Sweet and guests explore women's voices in history

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Dr Ursula Kania @instantlinguist.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

"2. Their facial expressions show contempt or disgust" - how very subtle... 🤣

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Isabel Picornell Garcia @picornell.eurosky.social · 12/10/2026

My article on one of my expert witness casework has just been published (open access). It involves the analysis of meaning of a Twitter post in 2022, which went badly wrong. #ForensicLinguistics #Language & #Meaning ojs.letras.up.pt/index.php/LL...

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“We will get you”: linguistic ideology, power, and the distortion of meaning in Twitter discourse | Language and Law / Linguagem e Direito

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Tamsin Parnell @tamsinparnell.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

I'm giving two talks in the next few weeks on national health and nationhood discourses under Keir Starmer. First up is the webinar series from Corpus Network Chile, and the second is the Language, Ideology and Power research group at Lancaster. Both talks will be online :)

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Emma Williams @emanemz.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

Thank you to everyone who nominated me for an inaugural #SahirAward! Voting is now open, and I’d love your support. Please vote at www.sahir.org.uk and help celebrate the people making a difference across the Liverpool City Region

Multicoloured background with an image of Emily in a white suit with the graphic I’ve been nominated vote for me at sara.org.uk Emily Waldron Sahi awards 2026

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Lingthusiasm @lingthusiasm.com · 09/10/2026

Announcing the Linguistic Zine Challenge! Make or share a linguistics zine and tell us about it by the end of November, and you could win prizes! (oooh, prizes~~) Thread, or here's a link for the blog fans: lingthusiasm.com/post/8299478...

Linguistic Zine Challenge
Tell us your story about sharing your enthusiasm about linguistics with people through zines and win prizes! Make your own zine or share an existing linguistics zine and you could have your story featured on a Lingthusiasm bonus episode, win a pop linguistics book, win Lingthusiasm merch, or win a year of Patreon membership to Lingthusiasm bonus episodes!

Closes: end of day 30th November, 2026 (any time zones)

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Christian Ilbury @christianilbury.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Always love doing a session for the EMC and this time I get to talk about social media and language change, and why we need to stop uncritically embracing labels like 'TikTok Language' 👌

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Prof Michaela Mahlberg @michamahlberg.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

How can the analysis of concordances be supported by algorithms? 📽️ Have a look at this new series of videos where we introduce the FlexiConc functionality in CLiC. 💻 CLiC is a free web app designed to support the computer-assisted study of narrative fiction. youtu.be/W9FYF81SYPQ?...

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FlexiConc in CLiC: Tutorial 1

YouTube video by Text and Language Lab

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Dr Katie Twomey @k2mey.eurosky.social · 28/09/2026

This is quite cool. My university is the first organisation in the world to force Microsoft to allow us to turn off copilot summaries in Word 365, after a backlash against it from staff (including, very vocally, me). That cannot have been easy for our heroic IT people so hats very much off to them!

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Dr Katie Twomey @k2mey.eurosky.social · 25/09/2026

Oooh!

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Dr Ursula Kania @instantlinguist.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Ages ago, I was at an event with Finnish author Tuuve Aro - most of it was in German (read by the translator) but she did a 5 min. excerpt in Finnish. All I understood was the bit where she went 'rrrr' (alveolar trilled 'r') to represent the sound made by a refrigerator 🤣

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Sofia Lampropoulou @sofialampro.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

New book on Narratives and Migration available to preorder! Edited by the great Anna De Fina&Sabina Perrino. Very happy to have contributed a chapter with Millie Montiel McCann& @samtbennett.bsky.social. Pleased to see @drsimongoodman.bsky.social's endorsement too! www.bloomsbury.com/uk/narrative...

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Sofia Rüdiger @sofiaruediger.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Call for papers (sharing on behalf of a colleague): Language and Culture in Small Hospitality Spaces: Perspectives on Talk, Place, and Social Life (ed. by Todd J. Allen, Andrew J. Barke, Momoyo Shimazu, and Xiangdong Liu) #LanguageAndFood #CulinaryLinguistics

Call for Chapters
About the project:
We invite chapter proposals for an edited volume on the social and cultural significance of
small hospitality spaces, including independently operated or community-oriented bars, pubs,
cafés, coIee shops, tea houses, izakayas, neighbourhood restaurants, and related venues (see,
for example, Allen, 2025; Allen & Liu, 2024, 2025; Liu & Allen, 2022).
Such establishments are often understood as “third places”: everyday settings located
between home and work that support sociability, informal public life, and local connection
(Oldenburg, 1989). They can also be viewed as part of a community’s social infrastructure,
providing spaces in which people encounter others, sustain social ties, and participate in local
life (Klinenberg, 2018; Farrer, 2022, 2024). Although commercial in form, small hospitality
spaces frequently exceed a purely transactional function. They provide settings for ordinary
conversation, recognition, temporary respite, cultural exchange, and the development of
familiarity over time.
These venues provide a valuable setting for examining how hospitality is accomplished
in practice (Allen & Liu, 2025b). Through interaction among owners, staI, regulars, and
newcomers, talk, embodied conduct, routines, material arrangements, and shared
expectations shape hospitable experience. This highlights the aIective and relational
dimensions of commercial hospitality (Lugosi, 2008; Allen & Liu, 2025a), while showing how
such spaces support identity negotiation, cultural exchange, boundary management,
belonging, and community.
This volume brings together work from sociolinguistics, linguistic anthropology,
pragmatics, discourse analysis, ethnography, cultural studies, hospitality studies, tourism
studies, intercultural communication, and urban studies. It is especially interested in research
that connects close analysis of interaction with broader questions of place, mobility,
representation, identity, neighbourhood life, and cultur…

3. Cultural Representation, Mediatisation, and Spatial Aesthetics
Examines how hospitality spaces are represented and designed through media, online
platforms, visual culture, signage, interiors, atmosphere, authenticity, and
neighbourhood identity.
4. Translocal Encounters and Comparative Perspectives
Considers intercultural interaction, migration, multilingualism, cultural adaptation, and
comparisons between hospitality spaces across cultural and geographical contexts.
We welcome empirically grounded chapters and theoretically informed contributions that
address the volume’s central question:
What do small hospitality spaces reveal about the relationship between language, culture,
place, and social life?
Contributions may explore these venues as sites of hospitality, participation, identity,
community formation, intercultural encounter, cultural representation, mobility, and spatial or
neighbourhood belonging, including how they are mediated, represented, and discussed
through digital platforms and social media. Authors are welcome to submit more than one
proposal, including proposals that engage with diIerent sections of the volume.
Submission details
Please submit:
• A chapter (unstructured) abstract of 500 words (maximum), excluding references
• A provisional chapter title
• A short biography of up to 100 words for each author
• Up to five keywords
Abstracts should indicate the chapter’s central argument, theoretical or methodological
approach, empirical material where relevant, and its fit with one of the four sections above.
Please submit proposals via: https://forms.gle/cMCqf9AaAGZPQ53K9
Provisional Timeline:
Date Stage
31 October 2026 Deadline for chapter proposals
15 November 2026 Notification of decisions
31 January 2027 Full chapter submission
February–March 2027 Double-blind peer review and editorial feedback
30 April 2027 Revised chapters due
31 May 2027 Final chapters due
31 July 2027 Completed manuscript submitted to the publisher
All accepted chapte…

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Kat Gupta @mixosaurus.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Delighted to be working with TransActual on this! We know that responding to this consultation was painful for many trans people and our supporters. We'd like to use these responses to find out more about our community's thoughts and experiences. Please read the info and contact me if you have qus

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Dr Ursula Kania @instantlinguist.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Oh no! Sending solidarity (as someone who also can't just order cheap/any decent lenses online 👓🤓)

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Alice Roberts @profaliceroberts.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

I’ve reached the point - well actually, I reached it a while ago - where I’m militantly anti-AI. Fine - use it in bioscience labs and radiology where it might help analyse data more effectively. Use it sparingly for systems engineering. Everywhere else, it can fuck off.

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Veronika Koller @veronikakoller.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

The latest episode of @wordsandactions.bsky.social is out and it's all about language #activism. wordsandactionspodcast.wordpress.com/2026/09/07/e... We revisit Covid metaphors, watch misleading headlines get rewritten, and hear what it’s like to live between academia and activism.

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Netzwerk Queerlinguistik @queerlinguistik.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Lavender Languages and Linguistics 33: We are beyond excited to announce that we will host #LavLang33 from September 8-10, 2027, in beautiful Hamburg (Germany). Stay tuned for keynote speakers and call for papers! @lavlang.bsky.social

view from "Philosophenturm", a high-rise campus building at Hamburg University. In front of the building, greenery and other campus buildings. In the background, the TV tower, downtown Hamburg. At the horizon, the Hamburg docks.
On the right side, you can see part of the "Philosophenturm" building, a 1950s/60s high-rise with yellow and grey bricks.

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Isabel Picornell Garcia @picornell.eurosky.social · 05/09/2026

What makes something a threat? In today’s episode, our hosts Dr Nicci MacLeod and Professor Tim Grant are joined by Dr Isabel Picornell who tells us about a case in which this was the central question. O Scotland, Scotland #TwitterThreatTrial Listen to the podcast 👇💩 www.aston.ac.uk/research/for...

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Writing Wrongs

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The Verge @theverge.com · 02/09/2026

As a new Harry Potter trailer makes the rounds, it bears repeating that there’s no way to watch this show without supporting J.K. Rowling’s bigotry and the structural violence she’s inflicting on the trans community.

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There is no ethical consumption of HBO’s Harry Potter series

You can’t without supporting Rowling’s transphobic bigotry.

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Anna-Sophie Heinze @asheinze.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

💔 Do you ever feel lonely – and have you ever thought of #loneliness as political? I’m super excited about this new publication with @mlewandowsky.bsky.social in @electoralstudies.bsky.social, in which we examine the relationship between loneliness and voting. 👉 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

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John Wiswell @wiswell.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

This Friday is my birthday! And my publisher just gave me some *audiobook codes* for The Dragon Has Some Complaints, so I'm celebrating with a giveaway. All you have to do to enter is 1) follow me on here 2) reskeet this post 3) reply naming one of your favorite monsters!

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Auuuulet 🍂👻 @aulet.es · 26/08/2026

"LibreOffice 26.8 contains no generative AI features. Documents are not transmitted to remote services for processing, and no component of the suite requires network access to function. This is a deliberate position."

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Effie Seiberg is a spooky Cyborg @effies.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

with alt-text (please alt-text your pics!)

sandwich board saying "IF 5-4 IS STAR WARS DAY CAN 9-25 BE DOLLY PARTON DAY?"

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Dr Ursula Kania @instantlinguist.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Stay safe - hope you won't be stuck for too long!

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Dr Ursula Kania @instantlinguist.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

Fingers crossed, and: Happy Birthday! 🥳🎂

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Kat Gupta @mixosaurus.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

Returning to this article by @lauraclancy.bsky.social and @hannahyelin.bsky.social on public academia, the neoliberal university and digital hate journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/... Universities love academic visibility but rarely positioned to support the labour & risk of being in the public eye

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Sage Journals: Discover world-class research

Subscription and open access journals from Sage, the world's leading independent academic publisher.

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Lancaster University @lancasteruni.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

We're launching a ‘Food for Nature and Society’ doctoral programme to fund 30 PhDs! Taking an interdisciplinary approach, the Leverhulme Doctoral Programme will deliver 30 fully funded PhD scholarships over 7 years. 📰 tinyurl.com/4v5yn28h @leverhulme.ac.uk | @lec-reefs.bsky.social 📸 Hazel Healy

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Corpus Linguistics 2027 @cl2027.info · 19/08/2026

We are pleased to finally announce… 📢 Call for Papers: Corpus Linguistics 2027 Venice, Italy | 12th-16th July 2027 CfP details: www.cl2027.info/call-for-pap... Deadline: 8th January 2027 🔗 All links in bio 🔁 please share widely! #CL2027

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#CL2027 - Call for Papers

Adaptation and Adaptability in Corpus Linguistics

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Dr Ursula Kania @instantlinguist.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

Thank you for this thread - I've been sitting with a mix of anger and sadness these past few days, without being able to find the right words (or any words, really).

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Dr. Sabrina Mittermeier @smittermeier.bsky.social · 26/07/2026

Just stop instrumentalizing the queer community to justify your Anti-Arab racism and Islamophobia

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Tarik Abou-Chadi @tabouchadi.bsky.social · 26/07/2026

Being queer means being the target of violence. Every queer person knows this. It's deeply engraved in who we are. We live with it every day of our lives. Not because of terrorism but because it is structurally enshrined in our "free" societies. Violence against queer people is not an exception ...

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Sofia Lampropoulou @sofialampro.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

'Sign your card to Andy Burnham' to urge the govt to create safe routes to asylum claims and reject the divisive rhetoric around migration&asylum seeking

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Dr Ursula Kania @instantlinguist.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

10 out of 10, no notes. 🏳️‍⚧️

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Prof Michaela Mahlberg @michamahlberg.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

⏳ Still time to apply - the deadline for applications is this Friday, 24 July

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Gretchen McCulloch @gretchenmcculloch.com · 17/07/2026

Finally we have made the long-requested episode that you can share with your overly credulous friend who thinks the button dogs on instagram are actually cracking jokes rather than being highly edited (plus lots of whale facts!!)

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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

On the 5th August, the EHRC's Code of Practice becomes statutory guidance. It will make life even harder for many trans & non-binary people. It's unworkable & harmful. The Good Law Project is challenging & wants to hear from people affected by these exclusions. goodlawproject.org/discriminato...

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‘Discriminatory’ and ‘unworkable’ trans guidance to come into force | Good Law Project

The equalities minister has ordered the government’s harmful code of practice will apply from 5 August – we’re pushing back

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Dr Ursula Kania @instantlinguist.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

Excellent (if slightly dystopian/terrifying) thread on Realbotix/classroom 'education' robots.

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CADAAD Journal @cadaad-journal.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

Loved #cadaad2026? Publish your next paper in the CADAAD Journal: Open Access, no processing fees. Now accepting submissions: ugp.rug.nl/cadaad/about...

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| CADAAD Journal

CADAAD Journal – Open access journal published by University of Groningen Press.

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Dr Ursula Kania @instantlinguist.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

Ich fuehle das gerade sehr... (unsere Uni hat heute eine email zu nebulaONE geschickt, natuerlich ein ganz toller 'AI workspace', den wir ab September alle nutzen 'duerfen' - it's a 'no' from me)

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Sofia Rüdiger @sofiaruediger.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

Final #BæFoLa talk of Season 10 coming up this Friday, July 17, 12:30-13:30 CEST 🍩🤩🍩 Join us to hear Revathi Suresh's talk on "Chattichoru as Spectacle: Constructing Malayali Identity and Food Narratives in Online Spaces". #LanguageAndFood #CulinaryLinguistics

Abstract:
The talk presents the semantic shift associated with the word chattichoru in Malayalam by exploring how Malayalam social media food content functions as a discursive project. In Kerala homes, chattichoru used to refer to a simple leftover meal directly eaten from a chatti or pan, usually by the women of a house. In contrast, the new chattichoru meal is a viral spectacle of abundance. The study examined ten YouTube Shorts on the chattichoru meal; the audio tracks were annotated, translated and transcribed using the tool ELAN and further glossing and lexical analysis was done using FLEx, a linguistics database software. Further analysis involved adapting the critical discourse approach (Fairclough 1995) by treating YouTube Shorts as multimodal texts, in line with Benson (2015). The findings show that along with the discourse structure of the short-form video, textual aspects such as repeated or exaggerated use of modifiers and sensorial language function as authenticity markers, thereby playing a crucial role in conventionalising the new meaning of chattichoru. The analysis attempts to place Malayalam food trends, such as the chattichoru videos, as a crucial meaning making and identity forming online practice in the contemporary gastro-political context in India.

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